844 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



from a pipe from Norton Sound. A drummer occupies the seat, -while 

 his companions are dancing. 



On the outside is shown one man at work chopping wood, while two 

 of his companions are indicated as bringing in a piece of timber for 



splitting. 



This structure is al 

 most a counterpart of 



Siberia. 



WINTER HABITATION, WITH WOOD CHOPPER AT WORK. 



In fig. ^1 are repre 



sented two forms, almost identical, of structures made for white men, 

 to serve as trading establishments as well as sleeping quarters. The 

 outline in some pictographs of traders possesses one more nearly like a 

 one- story log house. 



On one of the ivory bodkins shown in plate 24, fig. 5, the triangular 

 figures with diagonal projecting lines on either side near the top are 

 outlines of summer habitations, the utilization of which for apparently 

 purely decorative purposes being probably prompted by the regular and 

 angular forms, straight lines being preferable and more desirable for 

 such ornamental engraving, as curved lines are foreign to the primitive 

 straight-line system, largely attributable to the kind of instruments 

 available and the generally difficult nature of the substance to be 

 worked or engraved. 



In plate 59, fig. 4, is another and ruder form of indicating the same 

 style of summer habitation, the variants in plate 59, fig. 2, being also 

 more explanatory in detail, and of interest as indicating a departure 

 in engraving from the original type of a tent shelter, the light lines 

 diverging from near the top denoting the poles, over which some skins 

 or imported fabrics have been thrown. 



In plate (&amp;gt;() are a number of illustrations of native pursuits. In the 

 fifth line, or No. 5, are shown some delicately engraved figures. 



Nos. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, and 12 represent habitations of several kinds, of 

 each of which the village is composed. The occupant at the entrance 

 to No. 1 is employed in suspending from a pole to the left of the house 

 No. 3 some meat, probably fish. Festoons of the same kind of food, 

 for the purpose of drying, are sus 

 pended from the food racks shown in 

 Nos. 4, 0, and 8 and on the horizontal 

 pole resting on the roofs of the two 

 houses at Nos. 9 and 10. A granary 



WHITE MEN S DWELLINGS. 



is also indicated in No. 8, the stair 



way beneath being plainly shown. The occupants of the houses Nos. 

 9 and 10 are also occupied with domestic duties. Fig. 11 represents 

 the boat, placed upon a rack so as to dry the skin covering. 



The summer habitation (No. 12) has an open door at one side, and to 



